News, articles and events on youth employment
February 2024
-
Robotics and breaking gender barriers in technology
29 February 2024
The changing world of work due to technological advances provided opportunity to two best friends in web development and robotic automation.
-
Work Wise Youth: ILO’s new guide to create awareness on youth rights at work
23 February 2024
The ILO developed and launched a new guide to support young people, including the ones in forced displacement contexts, to understand their labour rights, in turn empowering them to advocate for fair and dignified working conditions.
-
Tackling water woes: ILO’s vocational training success in Kenya
21 February 2024
With support from the Government and partners, ILO PROSPECTS introduced a skill development programme supporting maintenance of water sources and supply systems in a drought prone community of Garissa, Kenya. The first batch of trained Water System Operators graduated this week.
-
© ILO 2024
Social Justice: The African Youth Challenge
With half the population of Africa aged 19 or under, and a quarter of the world's people expected to be living on the continent by 2050, social justice cannot be achieved globally if it is not first realized for the youth in Africa. This World Day of Social Justice, ILO Africa brings together representatives from the international development community to hear from the youth on what they say they need to realize their dreams, and discover their solutions to Africa's social injustices.
-
ILO drives the inclusion of hosts and refugees in Ethiopia's digital economy
02 February 2024
The agreements signed between International Labour Organization and Ethiopian government authorities will promote employment and policy solutions for inclusion of hosts and refugees in country's expanding digital economy.
January 2024
-
© ILO 2024
Insights into youth participation in work-based learning
24 January 2024
The ILO has released new indicators on work-based learning (WBL) and vocational education, offering statistical insights into youth participation in various forms of WBL including apprenticeships.
-
ILO engages with young people for well-prepared migration
23 January 2024
The ILO is committed to a campaign among young footballers to raise awareness of the challenges of well-prepared migration in order to prevent the risks of exploitation.
-
ILO's Youth-to-Youth Fund to tackle youth unemployment in Ethiopia
12 January 2024
Youth-led organizations in Ethiopia participated in a competition to secure financial and technical support for their proposals to promote decent work and economic inclusion of young people from the host and refugee communities.
-
Interactive dialogue and launch of Work Wise Youth: A guide to youth rights at work
The webinar will feature an interactive and inter-generational dialogue on the importance of promoting youth rights at work for individuals, businesses and societies, and launch "Work Wise Youth: A guide to youth rights at work". The guide is intended to support ILO constituents and other stakeholders in their initiatives aimed at raising young people's awareness of their rights at work, with a focus on those in forced displacement contexts.
December 2023
-
Bridging the Skills Gap in Lebanon's Poultry Sector
11 December 2023
The training programme, run by the ILO and AVSI Foundation, adopted a holistic approach, merging theoretical knowledge with hands-on practical experience for the enhancement of decent working conditions across the sector